1. Unity actually provides some benefits. Like for example full screen zoom on smaller laptop screens.
LOL! full screen zoom! such advanced technology! its only been there in windows and linux for ~15 years.
2. It breaks much less of UI conventions.
no it doesn't. it breaks everything. at least windows has the decency of letting users switch between the desktop and metro.
3. You can actually replace Unity with something else within minutes. (Or you can even install the Ubuntu edition without it.)
forgive me if i don't want a neglected product without any sort of support. and the easily replaceable part is moot, that is a property of linux. if canonical thought they could get away with it, they would have locked that down too.
Oh wait, Mint *is* an Ubuntu-based distro.
yeah, one that cares for and upholds the principles ubuntu was built upon.